OCTOBBB 16, 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



15 



continents were made of white daisies, 

 along which ran messengers, obviously 

 in response to messages sent on wires 

 carried to the globe from telegraph in- 

 struments in the front of the window. 

 About the window were handsome 

 baskets of various kinds. Second prize 

 went to W. J. Palmer & Son's window 

 at 258 Delaware avenue. Third was 

 taken by the Wm. Scott Co., at Main 

 and Balcom streets. All the displays 

 were highly commended. 



Returns ou Questioiinaire. 



Of the questionnaires sent out by 

 Secretary Pochelon, 217 were returned. 

 The basis for compiling F. T. D. statis- 

 tics from these blanks becomes better 

 each year, but still the returns are 

 not sufficiently large to insure accurate 

 figures. 



The P. T. D. business of 132 firms 

 during the last year was altogether 

 $349,076.36, or an average of $2,644.52. 



The average on outgoing orders was 

 $5.22. 



The average on incoming orders was 

 $4.92. 



Increase in P. T- ^- business since 

 joining the association averaged ninety 

 per cent, running individually from ten 

 to 1,000 per cent. 



The contributions of members to the 

 publicity fund totaled $5,988.50 during 

 the last year, of which $3,780 is yearly 

 subscriptions. 



On other questions the lack of replies 

 and the number of evasive answers cut 

 down still further the basis for estab- 

 lishing figures or opinion. 



The Exhibits. 



A large rase of fifty long-stemmed 

 Mme. Butterfiy roses from the E. G. 

 Hill Co., Richmond, Ind., was much ad- 

 mired. Earl Mann brought the blooms 

 up on the sleeper with him, but his 

 qualms about their condition on un- 

 packing after twenty-four hours in the 

 box were groundless. They traveled 

 splendidly. 



On the president's table was a large 

 basket of the new rose, Frank W. Dun- 

 lop, exhibited by John H. Dunlop, of 

 Toronto, Ont., which drew much praise 

 from admirers. 



A plant stand recently put on the 

 market by the A. W. Smith Co., of 

 Pittsburgh, was shown by Ira C. Har- 

 per. The stand is in two pieces, of 

 cast-iron, and is made in three sizes, 18- 

 inch, 24-inch and 36-inch, the extension 

 arm permitting an increase in height of 

 one foot in the smallest size, eighteen 

 inches in the second and twenty-four 

 inches in the largest. 



The decorations in the meeting room 

 were of Sylvia dahlias, from the Spring 

 Lake Dahlia Farms, Spring Lake, N. Y. 

 The retailers of Buffalo contributed the 

 force to do the decorating, which drew 

 much praise. 



In the lobby W. A. Manda, of South 

 Orange, If. J., filled several tables with 

 blooms of Dahlia Mandaiana and 

 ferns and foliage plants for which he 

 and his name are noted. 



Two billboards, of the type shortly 

 to be delivered by the national public- 

 ity campaign committee to florists 

 throughout the country, covered one 

 side of the meeting room. The bill- 

 board is 7%x20, designed according to 

 the adopted S. A. F. sign, with "Say It 

 with Flowers" in gold script lettering 

 on a green background. They are of 



Philip Breitmeyer. 



(Preflldent-elect of the Florists' Telegraph Delivery AssoclatioD.) 



sheet metal, in eight sections, which 

 are nailed to a wooden frame. 



Behind the platform, across the front 

 of the room was a large blackboard, on 

 which were F. T. D. posters and draw- 

 ings and newspaper pages showing Buf- 

 falo florists' advertising in the local 

 papers Sunday, October 12. W. J. 

 Palmer & Son, Stroh 's, Charles Sandi- 

 ford, L. H. Neubeck, Reichert's, W. H. 

 Sievers, Scott the Florist, Schoenhut, 

 the Colonial Flower Shop, S. A. Ander- 

 son, C. R. Fulton and Wiese were rep- 

 resented. Other photographs were of 

 the new billboards, of the store of the 

 W. L. Rock Flower Co., at Kansas City, 

 of the decorations of Chas. Grakelow 

 in the parade for Philadelphia's Home- 

 coming week and of Fred C. Weber's 

 store in St. Louis. 



The Gary Cement Works, of Cleve- 

 land, O., was represented by S. Stern, 

 who opened cans of Gary glazing ce- 

 ment to show greenhouse owners. 



For the work of the Buffalo florists 

 in decorating the hall and for the ex- 

 hibits of roses by the E. G. Hill Co. 

 and John H. Dunlop, a vote of thanks 

 was given by the association at the 

 close of the first day's session. 



The Burlington Willow Ware Shops, 

 of Burlington, la., had a display of 

 baskets in a sample room in the hotel. 



Rose Cornelia, grown by Robert Scott 

 & Sons, Sharon Hill, Pa., and staged by 

 the S. S. Pennock Co., was given a vote 

 of thanks. 



Conventioii Jottings. 



F. C. W. Brown, of Cleveland, wrote 



that this was one of those rare occa- 

 sions when pleasure came before busi- 

 ness. He was in New Brunswick, hunt- 

 ing with Wallace R. Piersoii, of Tarry- 

 town, N. Y., and RomAti' J, Irwin, of 

 New York. 



Frank Stuppy, of St. Joseph, Mo., led 

 some other F, T, I), members on a hunt- 

 ing trip after prairie chickens in north- 

 eastern Nebraska. In the party were 

 J. J. Hess, of Omaha, Edward Furrow, 

 of Guthrie, Okla., and Herman Frey,. of 

 Lincoln, Neb. In Mr. Stuppy 's place 

 at the convention was his brother-in- 

 law, D. W. Murphy, who has been tak- 

 ing hold of the business since Mr. Stup- 

 py 's nervous troubles compelled his ab- 

 sence. 



Grandy, ' ' Norfolk 's Telegraph Flo- 

 rist, ' ' passed around lead pencils to the 

 visitors. 



On the chairs in the meeting room 

 was an illustrated account of the F. T. 

 D. window with which the L. C. Hecock 

 Floral Co., Elyria, O., won the Better 

 Business Club's window contest there. 

 It was quoted from the Chronicle-Tele- 

 gram of October 1. 



A. F. Borden, of the Eedondo Floral 

 Co., Los Angeles, sent a telegram ex- 

 pressing his regret at being absent, and 

 good wishes for the association. 



A special delivery letter from Sam 

 Seligman, now in business for himself 

 in New York, was read. 



Geo. E. Schulz wrete from Louisville, 

 Ky., recommending an appreciation in 

 the form of a gift of some sort for Sec- 

 retary Pochelon. 



